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India blames Pakistanis, calls for punishment

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by Somi­ni Sen­gup­ta and Robert F. Worth­New York Times Mum­bai, India In a new sign of ris­ing ten­sion between two nuclear-armed neigh­bors, Indi­an for­eign min­istry offi­cials sum­moned Pak­istan’s ambas­sador Mon­day evening and told him Pak­ista­nis were respon­si­ble and must be pun­ished for last week’s ter­ror­ist attacks here, in which 173 peo­ple were killed over three […]


What They Hate About Mumbai

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by SUKETU MEHTANew York Times My bleed­ing city. My poor great bleed­ing heart of a city. Why do they go after Mum­bai? There’s some­thing about this island-state that appalls reli­gious extrem­ists, Hin­dus and Mus­lims alike. Per­haps because Mum­bai stands for lucre, pro­fane dreams and an indis­crim­i­nate open­ness. Mum­bai is all about dhand­ha, or trans­ac­tion. From […]


Qaida in partnership with Lashkar in India

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Times of India NEW DELHI: Ter­ror does leave a call­ing card. As the enor­mi­ty of the attack on Mum­bai sank in, it seemed like the arrival of al-Qai­­da in India, a ver­sion of 9/11 designed to attract a glob­al audi­ence giv­en the scale of vio­lence and the planned tar­get­ing of west­ern­ers. With the cap­ture of […]


NY subway terror threat emerges on busy travel day

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by Devlin Bar­rett and Tom HaysAP Police bol­stered secu­ri­ty in sub­ways and trains Wednes­day after the gov­ern­ment warned that al-Qai­­da sui­cide bombers were con­tem­plat­ing an attack on New York’s mass-tran­sit sys­tems dur­ing the hol­i­day sea­son. An inter­nal memo obtained by The Asso­ci­at­ed Press says the FBI has received a “plau­si­ble but unsub­stan­ti­at­ed” report that al-Qai­­da […]


US court orders deportation of Hafiz Saeed’s brother

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by Khalid HasanDai­ly Times (Pak­istan) WASHINGTON: Imam Muham­mad Masood, broth­er of Hafiz Muham­mad Saeed, founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Tayya­­ba, was ordered deport­ed by a Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts court on Thurs­day on an immi­gra­tion vio­la­tion charge. Under an agree­ment with fed­er­al immi­gra­tion author­i­ties, the for­mer imam of the 1,500-member Islam­ic Cen­tre of New Eng­land agreed to vol­un­tar­i­ly […]


Pakistan-based rebel group is targeting nuclear facilities: India

Posted by FTR ⋅ August 1, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

NEW DELHI (AP)- India’s defense min­is­ter on Mon­day repeat­ed a warn­ing that Islam­ic mil­i­tants based in Pak­istan were tar­get­ing Indi­an nuclear, mil­i­tary and reli­gious sites, a news agency report­ed. Defense Min­is­ter Pranab Mukher­jee told law­mak­ers that mil­i­tants from Lashkar-e-Tayab­­ba — a group believed to have links to al-Qai­­da — “are plan­ning to car­ry out some […]


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